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Owen County High School does not have a rowing team. It’s too bad because they could have practiced last week on the baseball and softball fields.
Neither the baseball team or the softball team saw much action last week. The baseball team played one game while the softball team was not in action once.
The Rebels took on Scott County March 31 and were shut out, 10-0.

The Owen County High School Lady Rebels played just one game last week.
The team hosted Walton-Verona March 26. The Lady Bearcats won the game 5-1.
The loss dropped the Lady Rebels to 0-2 on the season.
Owen County will be back on the field on Friday at Grant County.
They will be at home on Monday and Tuesday as they take on Gallatin County and Carroll County high schools.
They will be the first two 31st District games of the season.
Carroll County defeated Owen County twice last season.

After a tough start to last week, the Owen County High School baseball team finished strong.
The Rebels began March 24 by traveling to take on Harrison County High School on Monday evening.
The Thorobreds won the 10th Region title a year ago and reached the quarterfinals of the state tournament.
Things would not go well for the Rebels as the Thorobreds would defeat Owen County 15-5.
The team would remain on the road on March 27 as they made their way to Eminence to take on the Warriors.

On March 15,27 teams from Kentucky, Indiana, Tennessee, Ohio, and Pittsburgh, Penn. took part in the 2014 Rebel Judo Invitational.
The Marion Police Athletic League from Marion, Ind. took first-place honors with 59 points. DAMAC from Dayton, Ohio took home second place with 42 points. Owen County Judo Team took third with 40 points.

No one may have a perfect NCAA Tournament bracket but the Owen County High School baseball team has begun the season unblemished.
The team began the season last week with a pair of road games. The first came in Bedford against Trimble County on March 17.
The Rebels put up 10 runs in the first three innings but had to hold off a Raider rally to win the game 10-6.
Trimble County put up a five spot in the bottom of the fifth inning but could not manage to get any closer to drop their home opener.
The next game meant another bus ride for Owen County.

The 2014 softball season is under way.
The Owen County High School Lady Rebels traveled to Franklin County last week to begin the new season.
The team took on the Lady Flyers in the first game for both squads.
Franklin County scored runs in each of the first four innings to take a 9-0 lead into the fifth inning.
In the top of the fifth, Reagan Sutton doubled and came around to score on Allison Dempsey’s single for the lone Lady Rebels’ run.

The Owen County High School track teams spent Friday night in a frenzy.
The teams traveled to Union where they took part in the Ryle Friday Night Frenzy. Paula Rivera, Hailey Hatchett and Autumn Hunter had good nights for the girls and Hunter Trenary performed well for the boys.
Rivera finished fourth in the discus and ninth in the shot put while Hatchett was fourth in the shot put. Hunter finished eighth in the 3200-meter run. Trenary was second in the 3200-meter run and sixth in the 1600-meter run.

Owen County High School Head Boys Basketball Coach Devin Duvall would like to congratulate this year’s senior players as the winningest senior class in OCHS boys basketball history. Duvall said over the course of the past four seasons, from left to right, players Jarrod Ball, Bradley Duvall, Trevor Lykins, Hunter Trenary and Tucker Trenary have been part of three consecutive 31st district championships, two Eighth Region All ‘A’ championships and two NCKC championships. The senior class combined for a record of 76 wins and 40 losses, Duvall said.

The Owen County High School softball team showed a great deal of promise in 2013. They are hoping to turn that promise into results in 2014.
The Lady Rebels finished 11-17 last season. That can be somewhat deceiving when you dig a little deeper.
Owen County scored 10 or more runs in five games last year and played competitively against one of the best teams in the Eighth Region.
Owen County won its opening round game of the 31st District tournament over Eminence High School before falling 8-7 to Gallatin County High School in the semifinals.

With the baseball season scheduled to get underway this week, the Owen County High School Rebels are looking for many of the same results they found last season.
The team’s overall record may have been what they had hoped but don’t think the team did not have some success on the diamond.
While the Rebels finished 17-18 overall they won the Eighth Region All ‘A’ Classic and captured the 31st District title.